MNA � Palestinian security forces arrested Baha Hojir, member of the terrorist group �Abdullah Azzam Brigades� who was one of the elements behind the terrorist attack on Iran's embassy in Beirut in 2013.







Hojir has been regarded as a link between two suicide bombers and those organizing the attack on Iran diplomatic mission.

The�Iranian embassy bombing�was a double�suicide bombing�that occurred in front of the�Iranian embassy�in�Beirut,�Lebanon�on 19 November 2013. The two bombings resulted in 23 deaths and injured at least 160 others.

Iranian cultural attach� Ebrahim Ansari was martyred with five Iranian security personnel wounded. Ansari and the Iranian Ambassador�Ghazanfar Roknabadi�were scheduled to leave the embassy to attend a meeting at the�Ministry of Culture�at around the time when the bombs went off. The embassy's head of security, a Lebanese national, was also killed in the blast.

Roknabadi was then martyred in the 2015 Mina disaster.

Abdullah Azzam Brigades, which is a Salafi group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, in a statement admitted responsibility for the attack, claiming to 'retaliate' Iran-Lebanese Hezbollah 'intervention' in Syria.